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What (who) is chimera - definition
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Chimerae; Chimeras; Chimère; Chimera (novel); Chimera book; Chimera novel; Chimera (disambiguation); Chimarism; Chimeric; Chimairas; Cimera; Chimera (album); Chimera (film); Chimera (band); Chimera (comics); Chimera (TV series)
chimera
(chimeras)
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A chimera is an unrealistic idea that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely to be fulfilled. (FORMAL)
Religious unity remained as much a chimera as ever.
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In Greek mythology, a chimera is a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake.
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chimera
[k??'m??r?, k?-]
(also chimaera)
¦ noun
1. Greek Mythology a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. something hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve.
3. Biology an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.
4. (chimaera) a long-tailed cartilaginous marine fish with an erect spine before the first dorsal fin. [Chimaera and other genera, family Chimaeridae.]
Derivatives
chimeric -'m?r?k adjective
chimerical adjective
chimerically adverb
Origin
ME: via L. from Gk khimaira 'she-goat or chimera'.
Chimera
<World-Wide Web> A modular, X Window System-based
World-Wide Web browser for Unix. Chimera uses the
Athena widget set so Motif is not needed. It supports
forms, inline images, TERM, SOCKS, proxy servers,
Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local file accesses. Chimera can
be extended using external programs. New protocols can
easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for
inline images (e.g. PostScript).
Version 1.60 is available for
chimera">ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera.
chimera/">http://unlv.edu/chimera/.
Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000
AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with
X11R[3-6 ], imake and a C compiler.
(1994-11-08)
Wikipedia
Chimera
Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for "she-goat") originally referred to:
- Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of Ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals
- Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia typically considered the inspiration for the myth
Chimera, Chimera, chimère, Chimaira, etc. may also refer to:
Examples of use of chimera
1. You cannot refigure society‘s rules on a chimera.
2. "The evolution of a two–party system is not a chimera," it said.
3. The notion of a regime change in Georgia should be abolished as a chimera.
4. Now Britain too fell back on the economic chimera that salvation lay in mass science.
5. Does it want to address climate change or merely the chimera of energy security?